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Unmasking the Nightmare

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Reads 3,576
Votes 159
Parts 38
Time 20h 1m

Superheroes and supervillains. That's what they were in the beginning. Until they matured and the superheroes became the Elites and the supervillains became the Reigners. Now things are much more complicated.

Nicole Fletcher, daughter of a famed Elite Chosen, is selected to receive a superpower. When she becomes an Elite and meets her teammates: a bashful mechanic, the son of a millionaire, and a sassy AI, she doesn't think things could get any worse. And then the crescent moon appears, and she must conceal her past before it destroys her.    

Greycen McCain is on the run. Armed with a sense of justice and his Reigner teammates: a brusque farm girl and a speedster with asthma, he must run from the virtual-warping villain of his past. But secrets will always claw their way to the surface.

It's either the crescent or the claws. Welcome to the world of superpowers, where powers become your prison.

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